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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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