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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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