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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also reviews 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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