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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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