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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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