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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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