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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in elearning technology are empowering humans all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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