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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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