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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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