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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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