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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to understand these promising new open education ventures. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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