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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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