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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually 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 many subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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