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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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