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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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