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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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