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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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