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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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