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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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