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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the key 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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