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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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