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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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