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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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