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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning organizations are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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