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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that online education institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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