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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in digital education technology make it possible for students all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always 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 a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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