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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nepal to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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