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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology make it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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