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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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