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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in blended learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to better perceive these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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