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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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