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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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