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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open educational ventures. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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