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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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