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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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