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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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