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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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