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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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