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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in blended learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Palau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

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