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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Indonesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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