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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning enable people all over the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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