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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

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