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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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