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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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