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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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