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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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