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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also explores the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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