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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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