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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology make it possible for learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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