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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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