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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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