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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nepal to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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