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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free 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 variety of issues that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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