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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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