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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

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