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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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