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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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