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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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