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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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