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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also studies the 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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