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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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