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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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