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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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