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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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