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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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