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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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