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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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