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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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