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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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