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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online 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 Madagascar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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