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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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