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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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