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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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