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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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