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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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