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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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