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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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