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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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