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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education are providing the means for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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