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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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