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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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