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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are free but do not always 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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