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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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