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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

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