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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Armenia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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