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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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