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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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