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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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