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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Pridnestrovie (Transnistria) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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