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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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