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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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