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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning enable learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to consider now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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