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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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