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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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