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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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