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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in electronic education technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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