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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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