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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What 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 optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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