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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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