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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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