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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better perceive these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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