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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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