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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee 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 massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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