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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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