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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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