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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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