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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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