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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are considering today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education ventures. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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