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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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