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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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