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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. 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 classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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