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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

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