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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in blended learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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