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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in blended learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better perceive these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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