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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the key 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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