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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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