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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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