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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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