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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in blended learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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