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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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