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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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