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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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