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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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