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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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