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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Grenada to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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