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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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