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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are considering today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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