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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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