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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

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