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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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