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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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