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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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