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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp these fascinating new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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