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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free 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 several issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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