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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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