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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning enable learners all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently 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. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

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