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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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