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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Bangladesh to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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