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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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