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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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