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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in blended learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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