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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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