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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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