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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology make it possible for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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