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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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