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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Mozambique to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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