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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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