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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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