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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in blended learning technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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