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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Hungary to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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