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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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