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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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