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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning are empowering learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Grenada 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 poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education undertakings. Scholars want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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