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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOCs? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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