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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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