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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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