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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education ventures. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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