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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are considering now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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