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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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