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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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