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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently 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 a variety of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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