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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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