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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students 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 lot of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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