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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning enable people all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that educators 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 innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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