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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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