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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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