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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning are enabling humans all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

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