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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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