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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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