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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC courses? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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