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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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