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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education