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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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