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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

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