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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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