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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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