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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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