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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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