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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning make it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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