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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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