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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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