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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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