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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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