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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. People want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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