Creative Education

Volume 8, Issue 4 (April 2017)

ISSN Print: 2151-4755   ISSN Online: 2151-4771

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A Review of MOOCs in the Arab World

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2017.84044    2,237 Downloads   4,615 Views  Citations
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This review paper reports the main Arab initiatives on the Open Online Education followed by Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the Arab world. This paper provides a detailed description on the Rwaq and Edraak Platforms. The findings show that such platforms were not proposed inside the Arab universities, also indicated that the participation of Arab universities is still very weak in the movement of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

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Sallam, M. (2017) A Review of MOOCs in the Arab World. Creative Education, 8, 564-573. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.84044.

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