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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning are empowering students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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