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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these compelling new open education initiatives. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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