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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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