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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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