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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

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