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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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