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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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