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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes 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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