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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the most important 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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