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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better understand these new open educational ventures. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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