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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Armenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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