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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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