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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in blended learning enable students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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