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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses online. 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. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education initiatives. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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