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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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