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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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