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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Instructors want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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