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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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