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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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