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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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