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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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