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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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