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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are generally 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 many topics that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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