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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education enable humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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