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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are free for students but do not always 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 topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

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