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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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