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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand these important new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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