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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in online education enable humans all over the world to take part in online courses. 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. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. People want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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