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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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