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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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