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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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