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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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