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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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