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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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