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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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