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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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