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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these new open educational ventures. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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