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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Egypt to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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