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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning technology enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations must deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational undertakings. People want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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