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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning have made it possible for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews 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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