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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning have enabled humans all over the world to take courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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