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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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