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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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