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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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