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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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