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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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