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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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