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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning have enabled students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Iceland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

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