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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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