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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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