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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in blended learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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