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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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