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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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