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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for facts the authoritative 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 dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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