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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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