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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also investigates the 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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