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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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