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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

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