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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bahrain to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the key 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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