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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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