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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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