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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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