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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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