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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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