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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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