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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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