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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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