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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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