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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently 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 several topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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