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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students 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 many issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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