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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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