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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Azerbaijan to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other participants need to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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