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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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