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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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