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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning enable students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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