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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online education are making it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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