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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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