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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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