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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in blended learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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