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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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