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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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