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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are empowering students all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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