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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses 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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