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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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