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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always 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 subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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