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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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