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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. 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. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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