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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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