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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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