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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning enable people in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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