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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Public servants want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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