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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Pennsylvania State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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