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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily 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 a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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