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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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