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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers 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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