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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning enable students all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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