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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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