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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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