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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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