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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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