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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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