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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are empowering humans in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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