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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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