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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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