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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning are empowering students all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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