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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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