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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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