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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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