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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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