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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Fiji to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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