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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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