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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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