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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Bangladesh to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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