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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners 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 a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

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