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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning make it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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