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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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