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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models 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 organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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