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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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