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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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