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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies 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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