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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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