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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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