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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education ventures. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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