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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also articulates 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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