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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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