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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in elearning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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