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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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