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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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