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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing 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 schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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