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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? 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 stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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