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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online education have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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