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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in digital education technology are making it possible for students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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