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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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