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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? 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 assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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