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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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