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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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