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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

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