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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are usually free 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. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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