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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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