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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kuwait to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with 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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