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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily 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 several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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