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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in elearning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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