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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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