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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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