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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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