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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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