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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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