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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in blended learning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bangladesh to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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