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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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