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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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