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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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