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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high attrition?

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