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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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