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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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