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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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