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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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