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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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