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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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