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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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