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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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