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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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