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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology make it possible for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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