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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC 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 several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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