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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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