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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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