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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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