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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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