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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in blended learning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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