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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not 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. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

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