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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

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