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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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