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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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