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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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