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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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