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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major 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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