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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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