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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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