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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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