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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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