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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning make it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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