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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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