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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students 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 several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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