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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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