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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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