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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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