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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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