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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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