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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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