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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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