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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not 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 many issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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