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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are generally free 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 learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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