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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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