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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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