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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Denmark to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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