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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes 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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