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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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