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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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