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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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