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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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