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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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