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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Scientists want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines 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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