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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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