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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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