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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

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