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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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