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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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