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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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