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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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