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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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