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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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