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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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