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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open education initiatives. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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