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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in blended learning have empowered learners all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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