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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Burundi to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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