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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in digital education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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