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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in learning technology enable learners all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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