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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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