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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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