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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models 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 deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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