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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always 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 topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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