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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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