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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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