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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Armenia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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