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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology enable students in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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