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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are empowering students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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