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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

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