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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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