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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Armenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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