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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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