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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not 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 lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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