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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology have empowered students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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