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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology enable students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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