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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have enabled students in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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