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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

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