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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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