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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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