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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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