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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Renton Technical College to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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