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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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