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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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