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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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