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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

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