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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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