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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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