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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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