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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the key 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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