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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

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