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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Madagascar to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

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