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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kuwait to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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