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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students 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 quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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