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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in online learning enable people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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