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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

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