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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in elearning enable students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that online 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 be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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