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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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