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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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