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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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