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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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