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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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