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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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