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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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