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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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