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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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