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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free 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. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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