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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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