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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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