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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning enable people all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education ventures. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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