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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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