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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

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