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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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