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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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