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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are almost always 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 numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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