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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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