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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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