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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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