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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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