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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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