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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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