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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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