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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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