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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not 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 quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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