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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Nepal to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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