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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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