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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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