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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach 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 experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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