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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Romania to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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