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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to understand these fascinating new open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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