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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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