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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

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