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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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