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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently 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 e-learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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