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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating 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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