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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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