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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are considering now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkmenistan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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