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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in blended learning are enabling learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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