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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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