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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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