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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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