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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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