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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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