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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Indonesia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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