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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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