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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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