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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in digital education technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions must deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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