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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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