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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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