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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to consider now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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