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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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