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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for learners 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 a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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