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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

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