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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these significant new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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