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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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