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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open educational resources. As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. New historical trends in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates? How can we make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation.

There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. What different business models are being used by organizations like The Pennsylvania State University to conduct these massively open online courses? Administrators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the key challenges associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). For more details please visit this MOOC book site.

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