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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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