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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bangladesh to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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