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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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