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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology make it possible for students in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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