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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education ventures. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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