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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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