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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

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