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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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