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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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