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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these MOOC courses? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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