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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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