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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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