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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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