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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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