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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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